Here's something great to see: Long-time friend of the blog, Bruce Peter, is going to be Yahoo! Sports' man on the scene for the world junior tournament in Saskatchewan this year, providing updates from the games and anything else going on in Saskatoon.

Bruce AKA "saskhab" has been commenting on my site for years (and is a moderator here at FTR), and when I'd heard Yahoo! was looking for someone in the city to blog on the tourney, I was happy to mention his name. I haven't met Bruce in person, but I know from his comments — which often correct my errors — and chatting with him on email that he knows his junior hockey.

He signed up on this blog the very first day it launched here at SB Nation and has since posted nearly 900 comments — more than anyone but me — the past year. And now he's the competition.

That's good stuff.

(As an aside to all this, I should add that I still read every single comment here and appreciate the conversation we often get going. I remember back in my preblogging days how difficult it was to find intelligent hockey debate online, and hopefully the small crew here manage that more days than not. Contributors like Bruce are proof of the talent that's here, that's for sure.)